Deana Lawson

Deana Lawson
Born 1979 (age 36–37)
Rochester, New York
Residence Brooklyn, New York
Nationality  United States of America
Alma mater 2001 BFA Penn State
2004 MFA Rhode Island School of Design
Occupation Photographer
Awards Guggenheim fellowship
Website http://www.deanalawson.com

Deana Lawson (1979, born in Rochester, New York), is an American photographer and arts educator.

Background

She attended Penn State and earned a B.F.A in 2001, and later in 2004 received a M.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lawson started teaching at Princeton in 2012.[1] Lawson currently lives and works in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn.[2] She was previously married to painter Aaron Gilbert and together they have a son named Judah.[3][4] Lawson has said to have been influenced by Gilbert's artwork,[5][6] and much of Gilbert's early artwork depicts of the family including Lawson and their child.

Work

Deana Lawson's work ranges from found photographs to carefully composed portraits. Her primary focus is to create portraits that explore themes of intimacy, the family, and the different ways in which the corporeal form can convey selfhood. Lawson's subjects are all strangers, initially just from her Brooklyn neighborhood.[7] However, after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013,[8] she was able to travel to places such as Louisiana, Haiti, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Jamaica and Ethiopia to photograph more subjects there, and thus further explore the idea of global a African diasporic familial identity.[9] Lawson utilizes nudity within many of her portraits, creating large scale nude portraits that are both intimate and confrontational.

In 2013, Lawson was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[2]

Exhibitions

Lawson has exhibited her art at a variety of institutions, including:

References

  1. ↑ "Deana Lawson". Lewis Center for the Arts: Visual Arts Faculty. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Deana Lawson". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  3. ↑ "Judah - Political Painting by Artist Aaron Gilbert". Culture Hall. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  4. ↑ "November 2011: In Conversation with Deana Lawson". Whitehot, magazine of contemporary art. 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  5. ↑ Wender, Jessie (2011-12-15). "Deana Lawson’s Intimate Strangers". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  6. ↑ "BOMB Magazine — Deana Lawson & Henry Taylor". bombmagazine.org. 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  7. ↑ Wender, Jessie (15 December 2011). "Deana Lawson’s Intimate Strangers". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Deana Lawson". Guggenheim Fellow. 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  9. ↑ Goodwin, Mary (November 2009). "Deana Lawson: Corporeal". Light Work. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  10. ↑ Winant Carmen (30 September 2011). "Deana Lawson". Bomb magazine. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  11. ↑ Mirlesse, Sabine (November 2011). "In Conversation with Deana Lawson". Whitehot Magazine. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  12. ↑ Thomas, Mickalene (2012). "tête-à-tête" (PDF). Yancey Richardson Gallery. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  13. ↑ Rodrigues, Maria (3 March 2012). "AestheticSexAmerica at The Hélène Bailly Gallery". We Are Selecters magazine. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

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